Filed under: Portable, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

A recent Ziff-Davis survey - distributed amongst subscribers to their 1UP, EGM, and Games for Windows Magazine varietys - asked “If Microsoft came out with a portable gaming device (similar to PSP, Nintendo DS/Lite, etc.), how likely are you to purchase the device?” Answers are comprised of the typical survey stuff, Very Likely to Not at All Likely with a Don’t Know thrown in for the more indecisive gamers out there.

While rumblings concerning the long-rumored Xboy have been plenty scarce of late, Shane Kim did address it during a Q&A at the D.I.C.E. seminar held earlier that month. As reported by Gamasutra, he said, “Never say never … Launching

a portable device is like launching a Zune, launching another Xbox 360… we have a ways to go [to compete effectively in the music space]… Zune is not just about the device, it’s about the service as well.”

Considering that he certain didn’t seem eager to say “enn oh” the view that Redmond is soliciting consumer interest in such a device is far from surprising. However, whether they’re still at the whole “Does anyone want that thing?” phase, it would be quite some duration before any of us got our mitts on an honest-ta-gawd Xboy.

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[Thanks, Matt & Jonas]

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Orginal post by Christopher Grant